Deerica Jones, 23, of San Bernardino, tends to her 2-year-old cousin Asianae Thomas’ memorial site along Mountain View Aveenue were she was involved in a hit-and-run accident on Sunday in San Bernardino. (Photo by John Valenzuela/The Sun)

SAN BERNARDINO >> Asianae Thomas, the 2-year-old girl who had been clinging to life after a driver hit her and kept going during a weekend birthday party, has died.

She was pronounced dead late Wednesday at Loma Linda University Medical Center, San Bernardino County Coroner’s officials said.

She was hit Sunday in the 2400 block of North Mountain View Avenue by what witnesses described as a black flatbed truck that kept going north.

Since then, she’d been in grave condition, family members said.

For days, the family had held vigil at a memorial outside the home, where just days earlier, on Sunday, Asianae’s family was having a birthday celebration for several family members.

That’s when the girl described with big brown eyes, a big smile and long curly eyelashes, who had a thing for playing with cellphones, darted from an inflatable jumper in the home’s driveway across the street to the grassy island that separates the northbound and southbound lanes on Mountain View.

Thomas’ cousin, 23-year-old Deerica Jones, was there on Thursday, tending to a growing memorial for Asianae.

The family wants justice for the toddler, she said. And they want the city to do something about the speed of vehicles that travel up and down North Mountain View Avenue.

“He hit her and didn’t look back. He just kept going,” she said. “He needs to answer for this. He destroyed several lives and took my cousin from us.”

San Bernardino police are hoping someone will come forward with information leading to the arrest of the suspected hit-and-run driver.

“We’ll take any information we get and investigate it,” police Lt. Rich Lawhead said. “We are following up on each and every lead we get.”

“They go this fast all the time,” Jones said. “The city needs to do something about this.”

Police are aware of the issue and have made plans to enforce speed limits in the area.

“One of the best ways for us to control the speed of vehicles, especially in residential areas, is through enforcement,” Lawhead said. “We are planning to hit it hard in some of those neighborhoods.”

According to Lawhead, the city may look into getting speed bumps installed in neighborhoods plagued with speeding vehicles, but it’s always been against putting them in because of the damage they do to vehicles.

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“We did buy some we’re going to try out at checkpoints,” he said. “If they work, we’ll try to get those installed in some residential neighborhoods.”

Police on Wednesday released a surveillance image of a vehicle officers suspect was involved in the crash, but no arrests have been made.